I've done both. I've gutted deer where they fell. and I've brought them back to camp. some places camp was not much better than where they fell. other places camp had running water and a nice place to hang them up.

on the home ranch we load them up and take them to camp. its just easier. camp is never more than a mile away...all ranch roads pretty easily traveled by truck. deer can be loaded up and haning in camp next to running water in 10-15min tops. more often than not...we will go pick them up with the tractor. just roll your deer/hog into the bucket....pick-em up and go.

as a kid though I learned to gut deer on a place where we had no place to hang them. all deer were gutted laying on the ground. to this day I prefer to do it that way. even bringing a deer to camp i'll gut it as it lays on the ground and then hang it up to wash it out afterwards.

I dress mine in the "field", hence "field dressing" I have been on hunts where for some odd reason, they wanted you to bring them to camp for "Camp Dressing"

I guess some people believe deer are sensitive to a gut pile as if they have cognitive reasoning like people I have watched deer, elk smell a gut pile and go on back to whatever they where doing. I wont gut one close to a feeder, mostly to keep varmints, mainly buzzards, from sitting and chitting on my feeder BTW, can't recall the last deer I shot under a feeder though, most are in the oats, or cruising.

Not worried about the deer reacting to it... I just see no reason at all to do it in the field when I can do it at the skinning rack were im set up to do it and save all the extra mess... your making one process into two... all about being efficient and keeping the mess to a minimum.

Do yall open your corn sacks before you head out to fill feeders also?

No problem with that, but not everyone has a state of the art cleaning station When I gut a deer, I leave the "mess" in the field.
Not saving any time, or better efficiency, since now you still have to load and discard the guts you brought back.

As far as processing, with you 1000%

It consist of a tree branch, rope, saw horses and plywood but I thought it was pretty fancy too

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